[Hardy-Karmic] SRU: vgacon: Return the upper half of 512 character fonts

[Amit Kucheria]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:47:47PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> [Present in all versions since the start of git]
> 
> SRU justification:
> 
> Impact: The use of 512 character fonts on a vga console is broken since
> seemingly ever until now somebody noticed. While not being a panic spreading
> issue it can simply be fixed.
> 
> Fix: Let the get_font function return the complete character set and not
> only the first 256 characters, while pretending to have done all. Fix
> sent to upstream.
> 
> Testcase: Call showconsolefont after loading a 512 character font and do not
> panic (seems to be another bug in there), switch console and back and the
> second half of the font is corrupted.

I guess I forgot to ACK the patch after the questions :)

ACK.

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